The Warm Up®
Flat Track Motorcycle Races
Schedule for The Warm Up® – 2016
Friday night, August 5, 2016
Billings Motorcycle Club race
Spectator Gate fee $10 per person
Back Gate fee $10 per person
Non-Member Entry fee $35 per class Pro; $25 per class non-Pro
Standard Club Classes & Paybacks
Classes for pros and amateurs, flat track, knobby, mini-bikes
Gate opens at 4 pm, Sign Up 4 – 6 pm, Practice 7 pm, Opening Ceremonies 8 pm
Saturday night, August 6, 2016
The Warm Up® National Pro-Am flat track at Billings Motorcycle Club
(Outlaw, not AMA sanctioned)
$2,500 minimum cash Payback in Pro classes plus two Dashes (Expert and Pro)
Spectator Gate fee $10 per person
Back Gate fee $10 per person
Entry fee $50 per class Pro; $30 per class non-Pro
Classes for pros and amateurs, flat track, knobby (No QUAD Classes for this Pro Event)
Gate opens at 4 pm, Sign Up 4 – 6 pm, Practice 7 pm, Opening Ceremonies 8 pm
Original Design of the BMC 1/8 Mi Short Track
BMC Short Track – 2006
Directions to the Billings Motorcycle Club track detailed below.
Directions to find the short track at Billings Motorcycle Club…The Billings Motorcycle Club is actually pretty easy to find. For those of you that have GPS in your vehicle and depend on it for finding your racing spots.. SIMPLY TYPE IN: Casey’s Corner, 2007 Blue Creek Road, Billings, MT 59101.
BMC PROPERTY ADDRESS (*may not show on some GPS systems):
3630 Old Blue Creek Rd
Billings, MT 59101
Detailed Directions: Take Interstate – 90 to Billings, take the South Billings Boulevard Exit, turn south on S. Billings Boulevard. Proceed approx 2 miles, across the Yellowstone River. Look for a sign on the right side of the road for Billings Motorcycle Club, then turn left immediately before Casey’s Corner convenience store onto gravel road. Continue on the road going east following the Yellowstone River (which will be on your left) approximately 1 – ½ miles to the white entry gate
History
The Warm Up® – 2015
From 2015, where all the money was won by Charlotte Kainz, Joe Kopp and Wyatt Maguire…
The Warm Up® – 2014
They were back! AMA Pro Expert and Pro Single racers were in Billings for an AMA All Star National Flat Track Series race to be held at BMP Speedway on Monday, August 4, 2014! Top riders like Mees, Halbert and 2014 National Pro Singles Champion Wyatt Maguire came to Billings. And what a show they put on. Amazing. Even after racing flat track for over 40 years it still amazes me how fast this newest generation can go, the delicate but strong control they have over the motorcycle at 80 mph and how positive and supportive the flat track community is with and for one another.
The AMA Pro Grand National tour was on the West Coast with race events in Washington, then to Sacramento and returning to Castle Rock, Washington concluding on Saturday August 2. Both the Expert and Singles athletes traveled to Billings for the All Star race on Monday, August 4, with events the next two days in Rapid City, SD (Grand National 1/2 mi) and Sturgis, SD (AMA All Star 1/2 mi) Tuesday and Wednesday. We had 68 entries of national competitors in Billings. Classes included Expert and Pro classes for singles and twins…yep, we had a bunch of Harleys, Kawasakis, Triumphs and other big twin machines on track!
And then Mother Nature visited us once again. For the second year in a row, Mom showed up with smallish clouds and put down just enough water on the track prepared by Steve Nace to make it unrideable and unrecoverable. We might have been able to stay late, but with the National the next evening in Rapid City South Dakota and a low spectator turnout (it rained in Billings two hours before race time), we decided to make payoffs after the heat races. Excellent racing. Seeing Charlotte Kainz and Molly Terry, two of the sport’s leading rising stars was a treat…Charlotte is a sponsored RASEer…hope to her, Wyatt Maguire, Chad Cose, Shayna Texter and the rest of the RASE team in Billings in 2015 for our Castle Rock to Rapid City race to be held Monday August 3, 2015 at Billings Motorcycle Club.
The Warm Up® – 2013
Some of the very best in the world were in Billings Monday night August 5, 2013. Over 50 entries were taken in the Expert and Pro classes. Steve Nace and Mike Quigley did an amazing job of making BMP Speedway motorcycle friendly…the track with high banks looked to be one that would host some competitive racing in both the Singles and Twins classes. But unfortunately it was not to be. Right at practice time, shortly after the track had been given its final watering, Mom Nature stepped in. For 3 hours we watched as a storm in the West stalled about 50 miles from the race track…and then at 6 pm it moved at a glacier pace directly above the track and misted for more than 30 minutes. The moisture was not enough to get the pits or spectator areas muddy, but just enough that all efforts (including running a road grader to scrape the top inch off the track) failed. One of the best grader operators was called upon, and even he couldn’t get the grader around the track…it slid from the top of the track into the base in turn 3…when we knew that we were not racing. Full refunds were given to riders, crew and spectators. The riders proceeded on to Sturgis and raced Tuesday night.
Rainbow Over BMP Speedway August 5 2013
Ride The Big Sky® !
Video of the race held at BMC August 2011 at BMC.
Some More History
AMA Grand National Singles in Montana in 2008
The AMA Grand National Flat Track series made a stop in Billings, Montana in 2008. Since 2003, The Warm Up, held the weekend before the Sturgis Rally each year, has included hundreds of profesisonal and up-and-coming motorcycle and quad flat track racers. In 2008, the best athletes in the sport of professional flat track came to Billings to compete on the MetraPark 1/2 mi dirt track. AMA pro racers from the US, Canada, Australia and Japan were on hand to battle it out under the beautiful Montana Big Sky. The two day event was the first of its kind for Montana, and the only AMA GNC race west of the Mississippi in 2008.
Video of the 2008 GNC 1/2 mi event held in Billings.
Congratulations to Kenny Coolbeth for winning the first ever GNC Singles race in Montana, and moving on to win his 3rd consecutive GNC Twins Number One plate in 2008. Great Job Kenny!
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